Snare help

[Sandman]

I came across a few snares that look like these (http://www.amazon.com/Ausable-Coyote-Snare-Washer-Swivel/dp/B00470C4VC/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top)

Does any know where I could get some information on how to use them? I know nothing about snares.

[DaveS]

Google has a lot of good info on using snares. Locations, trails and crossings. Also read up on liability issues.....Worth knowing!

[Sandman]

I tried google but I don't even know what type I have...

[DaveS]

From what little I can tell from the picture, they are the self locking type. Set them up and use them as with any snare. I've seen several good articles here lately about using snares. If I can find them again, I'll post a link.

Edited December 8, 2011 by wd-40

[DaveS]

I used to do a lot of trapping years past. I never used snares though. I only know of their use through reading. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

[MacGyver]

Bruce Hemming's "Buckshot's Modern Trapper's Guide"is a great resource.

[BigK]

These snares are basically a galvanized a slip-knot. One end has a swivel used to tie off to a limb or stake. The other end is the washer lock that creates the slip-knot.

Asuming yours are the 5' they are coyote snares, they create a 12" loop that can be hung vertically along a culvert or known trail. The coyote will snare himself as he walks through the loop.

[Timestepper]

Agree with MacGyver & BigK - Used to use these quite a bit for beaver up home (in Kansas) and the same type but smaller for rabbits and such. Back then they were called "self-locking cable snares" or simply cable snares and were legal on anything that leg hold traps were legal on. Wouldn't mind finding a few myself to aid in removing the 'coons that frequent our hen house.

...TS...

[DaveS]

Agree with MacGyver & BigK - Used to use these quite a bit for beaver up home (in Kansas) and the same type but smaller for rabbits and such. Back then they were called "self-locking cable snares" or simply cable snares and were legal on anything that leg hold traps were legal on. Wouldn't mind finding a few myself to aid in removing the 'coons that frequent our hen house.

...TS...

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about my ducks and chickens. Leghold traps won't work, but I bet I can get that suck'a with a snare where he crawls under the fence!

[Timestepper]

Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about my ducks and chickens. Leghold traps won't work, but I bet I can get that suck'a with a snare where he crawls under the fence!

They don't actually get in any more since I pegged landscape timbers to the bottom of the chicken wire around the coop and dug a trench outside of that and filled it with quikcrete. (I've also got 1/2 inch heavy wire mesh around the bottom of the walls of the hen house buried in quickcrete.) The problem is, we have an idiot neighbor who feeds them, so they still come over looking for an easy meal. We haven't lost any chickens for quite a while, but they tend to tear hell out stuff trying to get to them and I don't know how many times I've had to take a wheel barrow and walk through the woods picking up the trash they've scattered!

I've gotten a couple of them with leg hold traps and one with a conibear, but the little bastards have gotten too smart for most of the sets and I think Johnny's snares would be a great addition - either that or I'm going to have to start feeding them myself and then just sit on the roof with the .22 and a spotlight.

[BigK]

...either that or I'm going to have to start feeding them myself and then just sit on the roof with the .22 and a spotlight.

Sounds like a lot more fun than setting snares.

Me and my grandpa used to stay up and ambush coons that would get into the garden and hen house. I'd hold the light and he'd hold the double-barrelled 12 gauge. One night we killed 2 coons and about half a row of sweet corn. After that, he got a dog.

[Howler]

Been snaring for the last five years. Before ya start read the laws on snares. After reading them make sure it's what ya want to do. It takes some time to check them as needed. Also think about the non target animals you could (and will) catch. Coyote, dogs, and fox will use the same travel routes. Setting snares for coyote I use a 11'' loop 11'' off the ground. This set could also catch free running dogs, but smaller animals will slip around or under the loop. On real thick areas I set the snares where the travel lanes narrow into one lane. Setting them like this reduces the number of snares I set/check.

BTW the ones you are looking at are illegal. They don't look like they have deer stops. The stops keep deer from getting a leg caught in the loop. The stops can be added, but it's just as cheap to buy the correct ones.

I caught this one going under a chain link fence on a semi large farm. On fences I set the snare loop a little smaller. I also set the bottom of the snare wire about 2'' off the ground.

This one I caught using the 11'' loop 11'' off the ground with a double cross stake set up.

Edited December 10, 2011 by Howler

[DaveS]

Nice Coyotes!